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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Regular Expression Closure expander wanted
Message-ID: <979@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 18:08:26 GMT
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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I am currently using the Spenser regular expression routines posted to usenet
many moons ago.  What I miss most in this package is the ability to do the
following:

RE{4,12}

which would mean that the RE will appear at least 4 times and no more than
12 times for a match to occur.

Mr Spenser has indicated to me that this was dropped due to its difficulty
in implementation in the type of state machine used.  What I am hoping
to find is someone who might have written a 'frontend' to the routines
which would identify when this expression was present and would expand
it into the long format.  


Anyone do this?
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